A grim but entirely accurate assessment of the sociopolitical aspect of our global predicament. When a truthless, deranged, felonious, hateful fascist demagogue like Trump won out over an honest, qualified, intelligent, articulate, charismatic, and decent adversary like Kamala Harris, it was game over for democracy, but also for truth itself--and, of course, for the planet as well.

However, as you point out, our entire global market economy is a fossil fuel and money-based system that depends entirely on the endless growth of production and consumption of commodities--and therefore of both population and ecocidal resource extraction and carbon emissions. This system is obviously, and blatantly, incompatible with a finite, living biological support system that depends on climatic stability, topsoil regeneration, arable land, intact arctic and antarctic ice sheets, insects, coral reefs, forests as carbon sinks, and genetic diversity of both plant and animal life. This basic truth is taboo among economists and oligarchs, and therefore among the politicians they have bought,

Given this fundamental incompatibility between the endlessly maximizing Order of Money and the necessarily optimizing Order of Nature, or between Glomart and Gaia, as I like to call them, our modern civilization was doomed even before Trump, due to the iron law of ecological overshoot followed by collapse. The rise of Trump is simply the final nail in the coffin. Collectively, we're doomed.

But individually, we still have options. For me the best options are (1) a spiritual practice that enables us to BREATHE with gratitude and benevolence; OBSERVE with caring and compassion, even for the brainwashed and deluded, and ultimately for our enemies as well; LET GO with a smile, and ABIDE in equanimity, right here in the present moment; (2) practicing Satyagraha--speaking Truth to power and adhering to nonviolent noncooperation with evil--mindfully, strategically, and relentlessly, even at the risk of our own lives; and (3) Permaculture: growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness--so that just possibly, the seeds of a new, symbiotic Gaian culture can take root locally amidst the crumbling ruins of the old, toxic Glomart culture.